Tortillas are best known as those handy (and tasty) contraptions in which we put the delicious ingredients to the most beloved Mexican foods. These edible containers are possibly the single most important aspect of Mexican cuisine. The taco, burrito, and chimichanga would be reduced to a messy pile of ground beef salad without them. Tortillas aren’t quite stable enough to put soup in so someone had the great idea to put the tortillas in soup. Hence, the blessing we know as tortilla soup. [Read more…]